Front Matter
pp. i-1
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Inventing the New Through the Old: The Essence of Haikai and the Zhuangzi
Qiu, Peipei pp. 2-18
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At Wit's End: Satirical Verse Contra Formative Ideologies in Bakumatsu and Meiji Japan
Brink, Dean Anthony pp. 19-46
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Book Review: Osaka: The Merchants' Capital of Early Modern Japan, James L. McClain and Wakita Osamu, eds.
Yonemoto, Marcia pp. 47-51
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Civilization and Monsters: Spirits of Modernity in Meiji Japan (Book Review)
Hirata, Hosea ;Figal, Gerald A. pp. 51-52
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Translation of the Memorial of Imakita Sakubei to the Lord of Tosa, Yamauchi Toyochika
Roberts, Luke ; pp. 53-56
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Complete Issue
pp. i-56
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